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nox771:

Regarding cloning a laptop drive (or any drive), I've used SelfImage often and it works great:
http://www.excelcia.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=4

A few good things about that program: it's free, it can clone a drive that is currently in use, and it can clone partitions/drives that Windows does not recognize (ext3 or such). 

I used that to clone my laptop drive when it was on the edge of death.  I hooked up an external 2.5" USB enclosure with a new drive, booted the laptop, and used SelfImage to clone the laptop drive to the new drive.  When it was done I flipped the laptop over, pulled the bad drive, put in the new one, flipped it back, and it booted right up. 

I would suggest running a disk check to clean up any leftover open files (the small penalty you get when cloning a drive that's in use).  I even got a 2nd new drive that I image the drive to every month or so (in case one of them goes bad).


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